Café Racer travels to the cornfields of Davenport, Iowa where former chopper builder Greg Hageman unearths a project bike in his family’s barn; York, Pennsylvania’s J&B Moto Co. attempt to build a café racer version of the world’s most famous roadracing motorcycle; Café Racer magazine road tester Blake Kelly moves from illegal to legit as he switches careers from stunt rider to roadracer; Dime City Cycles complete their project bike and hand it over for testing to a classic roadracer.

Café Racer makes a visit to the annual Mods VS Rockers rally in Chicago, the nation’s longest-running café event; our in Davenport, Iowa builder Greg “Doc’s Chops” Hageman completes the rebuild of his barn-find Honda CX 500 V-twin while we meet Long Beach California’s Jay LaRossa, a former hot rod car designer whose turned his attention to Japanese café bikes from the 1970s; meanwhile, the crew from Pennsylvania’s J&B Moto Co. hand their Yamaha XS 650 monoshock custom over the pro roadracers Eric and Ben Bostrom for a high-speed test ride

We meet Yoshi Kosaka of California’s Garage Company as he sets out to build a 1965 Triumph motorcycle in Los Angeles; across the Golden State, Jay LaRossa tears into a Yamaha SR 500 single, making the machine a thing of speed and beauty; not to be outdone is Greg Hageman who sits back to watch as Ton-Up Chicago founder Larry Fletcher tries to coax the ton from Greg’s CX 500 Honda. Hungry for more unique custom café bikes? This week we serve up “Café A La carte” mini-features focused on some of England’s best streetbikes.

The Café Racer crew packs its bags and travels to London’s Lewis Leathers, the world’s oldest motorcycle gear manufacturer; Alan Bernard of Florida’s Santiago Choppers switches from choppers to ton-up machines as he sets out to build a wicked, Kawasaki custom. At Garage Company, Japanese expat Yoshi Kosaka’s team shows us speed and efficiency as they reconstruct their Rickman-Triumph special and it’s test and tune time for Long Beach custom king Jay LaRossa and his Yamaha SR 500 single when it runs head on into the Boz Brothers in the California canyons.

If you dig café bikes that are raw, gritty and quick, New York’s 6th Street Specials is the place to be this week as owner Hugh Mackie searches for parts to build a vintage BSA twin; Sparks fly and all the rules get broken as Santiago Choppers wades into their Martin-chassis Kawasaki 1000; “My Name is Earl” and “Memphis Blues” star Jason Lee visits Lossa Engineering in Long Beach to check out what may be his next custom café ride and Garage Company’s Yoshi Kosaka shares his Rickman special with the Bostrom Brothers in his final test ride.

New York’s XPO Streetfighter show the historic links between futuristic streetfighters and café racers as they start a 919 Honda project bike; In Manhattan’s Lower east Side, 6th Street Specials’ Hugh Mackie and tuner Fumi start rebuilding a 1958 BSA twin; The best of America’s custom streetbikes is profiled in the second installment of Café A La carte and Florida’s Santiago Choppers places their Martin-frame Kawasaki 1000 in the hands of rockabilly motorheads the Psycho Devilles for a full-speed test.

In Chicago, the husband and wife team of Chad and Bee McDade begin a Norton Commando project with lots of hidden surprises; XPO Streetfighter brings in its best technicians to transform their 919 Honda naked roadster into a Café-Fighter; We point our cameras towards Milwaukee for the annual Rockerbox street festival where the café racer is king; New York’s 6th Street Specials test their BSA café racer on the road with a test riders too young to remember when motorcycles had kickstsrters.

Delaware’s Loaded Gun Customs turn their gaze from custom hot rods and drift cars to a Triton café bike; Ace Motorcycle and Scooter begin rebuilding their 1970s Norton Commando in Chicago; Meet legendary Vincent tuner “Big Sid” Biberman, America’s foremost expert on making British V-Twins go fast; Pro roadracers Eric and Ben Bostrom pit their skills against XPO Streetfighter’s 110-horsepower Honda 919 Café-Fighter. Café racers; Sid Biberman, an 80 year-old motorcycle customizer is interviewed. LA’s Garage Company has their motorcycle put to the test.

This week on Café Racer: The crew at Delaware’s Loaded Gun Customs hands their Triton hybrid bike over to pro roadracers Ben and Eric Bostrom to see whether the combination of Norton handling and Triumph power still holds up to the legend. While the clock ticks down the remaining hours of their Mid-Ohio Vintage Motorcycle Days challenge build, Ben Freidman and Mike Seate try and make their custom café racers a reality for just under $1,000; and we head back to Oyster Bay, Long Island to catch up with café racing Piano Man Billy Joel as he joins us for a ride.